A securities exchange start-up, the Members Exchange (MEMX), is on a roll via new strategic financing led by asset manager BlackRock, following a key approval by the SEC. While the launch of its first transaction venue was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, MEMX officials want their venue to get underway during the third quarter of… Read More >>
ASX, Digital Asset & VMware Partner for DLT
ASX, Digital Asset and VMware Sign MOU The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has signed a three-party memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Digital Asset (DA) and VMware to work together on distributed ledger technology (DLT) initiatives in Australia and New Zealand. Under the MOU, the ASX plans to provide its DLT offering “with the support of… Read More >>
JPMorgan & StatPro to Combine Analytics Offerings
Investment banking giant JPMorgan and vendor StatPro Group have announced a partnership that will combine the bank’s indices and analytics with the StatPro Revolution portfolio analytics platform, resulting in a consolidated performance measurement solution for the bank’s clients. The ultimate goal of the collaboration is to help front-office staff better manage portfolio risk and performance… Read More >>
JPMorgan Partners to Offer New Trade Processing System
JPMorgan’s Securities Services will be able to offer its buy-side clients new trade processing views via trade lifecycle status updates, standardized commentary, and shared bi-directional workflow support through a collaboration with startup AccessFintech. The collaboration combines JPMorgan’s operating model and workflow tools and AccessFintech’s cutting-edge technology, officials say. The AccessFintech service is a single global… Read More >>
Barclays, Goldmans & JPMorgan Endorse DTCC’s GTR
Barclays, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan have added their names to a growing list of major financial services firms endorsing the Global Trade Repository (GTR) service of the DTCC as a way to fulfill pending regulatory reporting requirements for securities financing transactions (SFTs). French banking giant Société Générale and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SEB) also intend… Read More >>
Five Banks Settle FX Cartel Charges for $1.19B
The European Commission (EC) stunned the foreign exchange (FX) world with the news yesterday that five major banks — Barclays, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Citigroup, JPMorgan, and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) — have been fined a total of €1.07 billion ($1.19 billion) on charges that they took part in cartels that monopolized… Read More >>
JPMorgan Extends ‘Algo Central’ via Bloomberg Terminal
JPMorgan is offering its clients access to its electronic foreign exchange (FX) trading service, Algo Central, via the Bloomberg Terminal and is the first global bank to do so, according to JPMorgan and Bloomberg officials. The bank is offering the Algo Central institutional execution services on the Bloomberg App Portal at {APPS <GO>}, and is… Read More >>
JPMorgan Explores New Blockchain for Debt Issuance
JPMorgan Tests Involve National Bank of Canada JPMorgan tested “a new blockchain platform” for debt issuance with the National Bank of Canada and other large financial services firms, officials announced on April 20. JPMorgan is “is seeking to streamline origination, settlement, interest rate payments and other processes,” according to an official statement. For the test,… Read More >>
JPMorgan Opens Its Research to Amazon’s Alexa
We are hearing a great deal about how artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and robotics — applied individually or via combinations — are going to take over the world, eliminating securities industry jobs and maybe even entire professions. Yet I suspect (my Luddite impulses aside) that disruptive technologies may yield services that we hadn’t anticipated… Read More >>
FlexTrade Adds Kensho AI & Analytics to EMS
FlexTrade & Kensho Technologies Collaborate Execution systems vendor FlexTrade is integrating pre-trade analytics support via Kensho Technologies into the FlexTRADER EMS (execution management system) to offer “a detailed, real-time event feed to assist a trader’s decision-making process when executing a trade,” officials say. “This integration with Kensho brings a unique level of ‘market context’ to… Read More >>
